TO THE READER.
It is perhaps necessary, and but fair, to inform you,
that this Narrative is written by those who merely
profess to give a plain, unvarnished, but faithful history of a most extraordinary Character; and to do that
in a manner as free from any improper allusion as the
subject will possibly admit of. If, in this humble attempt, they can so far succeed as to convey the facts
of this singular case in somewhat of an intelligible
shape, all they dare to hope for will be accomplished.
